Sales-book.



C. W. POTTER.

SALES BOOK.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 7. 1914.

Patented Dec. 21, 1915.

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CHARLES W. POTTER, OF WALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE POTTER PRESS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

SALES-BOOK.

having an improved device for securing the.

sales pad in the sales pad cover.

The object of the invention is to cheapen the cost of sales books.

To this end the invention consists in the sales book having an improved and cheaply manufactured device for securing the sales pad in the said cover, hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings illustrating the preferred embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the way inwhich the sales pad is inserted in the sales padcover and Fig. 2 is a fragmentary. side elevation of the sales book with the sales pad in place.

The illustrated sales book consists of a sales pad 1 and a sales pad cover 2. The sales pad comprises a number of paper leaves 5 and a tag board back 6. The leaves 5 and tag board back 6 are bound or stapled together at their top margins by the usual wire stitches 7. The leaves 5 are torn out as used. This form of pad is the usual sales pad employed by tradesmen. The sales pad cover 2 has top and bottom covers 10 and 11, hinged together by a flexible back 12. For the purpose of securing the sales pad in the sales pad cover, two separate sheet metal clips 15 are fastened at the opposite edges of the bottom cover 10 by means of rivets 16. Each sheet metal clip consists of a base plate 17 which lies flat against, and is secured to, the bottom cover, or'sales pad support, 10, a pad-engaging tongue 18 (overlying the support) which extends inwardly from the edge of the clip base and an upstanding lip 19.

When the sales pad is inserted in the sales pad cover, the tag board back 6is inserted beneath the tongues 18 and the sales'pad is drawn in, as shown in Fig. 1, until the tongues which extend between the back 6 Specification of Letters Patent.

.isLthus securely held in place.

scope of the following claims:

Patented Dec. 21, 1915.

Application filed. February 7, 1914. Serial No. 817,140.

sales pad which is adjacent to the stitches 7 fits inside thelips 19 as shownin Fig. 2.

The tongues 18 by their engagement with, the stitches 7 and the lips 19 by their en-;

gagement with the top edge of thesales pad, I

prevent the sales pad from movlng longitudinally, and the tongues 18 engage and hold the edges of the tag board back 6 and prevent the sales pad from moving laterally in the sales pad cover. The sales pad When the leaves are all torn off of the sales pad, the tag board back-is easily removed from the cover. In case it is desired to remove the sales pad before it is used up, the edge of the pad adjacent the lips 19 may be lifted by catching it with the finger or thumb at the middle of the edge between the two lips 19 and the sales pad drawn out over the tops of the lips 19. The clips 15 are stamped out of sheet metal and are very cheap to manufacture. Moreover, the same clips may be used on widely varying sizes and shapes of covers, all of which conduces materially The present invention is not limited to the illustrated embodiment as it may be embodied in other constructions within th 1. A sales book having in combination, a sales pad comprising a number of leaves, a board back and stitches passed through the leaves and. back near one edge of the pad, and a sales pad cover having fixed inwardly extended tongues for engaging the pad between theleaves and the back adjacent to the stitches, and an upstanding lip engaging the adjacent. edge of the pad, substantially as described. a

2. A sales book having, in combination, a sales pad comprising a number of leaves, a board back and stitches passed through the leaves and back near one edge of the pad, and a sales pad cover having two sheet metal clips rigidly secured to the inside of the cover at its opposite edges, each clip having a fiat base secured to the cover, an inwardly extended. tongue engaging the pad between the-leaves and the back adjacent to the stitches and an upstanding lip at the edge of the base for engaging the edge of the pad v djacent to the stitches, substantially as deseriloed.

r "As an article of manufacture a cl pifori use in'makin'g pad holders consisting of a fiat base having anupstanding lip adapted- 1 to engage the bound edge of a pad and a to-nguecsec-uredto thebase at an edge thereof and extended from the said edge inward from the edge and close to-the loase'so as to hold a portion of the pad between the tongue and' the'b'a'se, thetongue and lip cooperating to hold the pad in place, substantially as de scribed. e

4L Aj sales pad ho'lder'having, in combinational support for a pad and a pair of: s'epa- I rateelips secured to the support having upstanding lips arranged in line with. each other toengage abound edge of a pad, and

copies of this patent may be obtained for tonguesoverlying the support adapted to engage a portion of the describedpad, substantia11y .-as

.5. A sales pad holderhaving in eonibim tion, a support for a pad, and a pair of separate clips secured to the support hark ing fixed. pad-engagingtongues overlying the support and arranged parallel and close to the supporflto' engage the pad; close'to a bound edge thereof, substantially, 1 as" described.

6. A sales pad holder'havingin combim-f tion, a support for-a pad and a pair of Separate clips secured to the support having fixed pad engaging tongues and upstanding v lips, thefpad-engaging tonguesoyerly ing thesupport and arranged parallel and olese to the support andythe upstanding lips 'witnesses'z- IHORACE VAN-EVE EN, HARRY A. ENGLISH.

ranged parallel-to the pad-engaging tongues. r i CHARLES W. POTTER. 

